New software tools have enabled scientists to read an ancient, damaged Hebrew scroll without ever unfurling the fragile, disintegrating parchment. The digitization techniques, known as "volume ...

Archeologists have further unlocked writings in the ancient En-Gedi scroll -- the first severely damaged, ink-based scroll to be unrolled and identified noninvasively. Through virtual unwrapping, they ...

An ancient Hebrew scroll has been unwrapped and read 1,400 years after being destroyed in massive fire. The En-Gedi scroll, which is the oldest Pentateuchal scroll in Hebrew outside of the Dead Sea ...

A new image processing technique has peered into an ancient parchment scroll from Israel, allowing researchers to virtually unwrap the brittle parchment and read the text contained inside for the ...

LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 23 (UPI) --The En-Gedi scroll remains rolled and sealed, and will likely never be unraveled. It's also severely burned. But none of that has stopped scientists from revealing the ...

An extremely fragile, ancient Hebrew scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing the earliest copy ever found of an Old Testament Bible scripture. Fire burned the En-Gedi scroll, ...

It's a natural wonder treasured for the "healing powers" of its mineral-rich water. But the sea at the lowest point on Earth is slipping away. On the shores of the Dead Sea, a village lies in ruins, ...

In 1961, Yoseph Porath, a volunteer on an archeological expedition to what is now known as the Cave of Letters, along the west coast of the Dead Sea in Israel, stepped on a wobbly stone deep within ...

When it was discovered in Israel in 1970, the En-Gedi scroll was clearly in no shape to be read: It had been found in the Holy Ark of a Jewish community dating to around 700 B.C. and had burned along ...

When the En-Gedi scrolls were excavated from an ancient synagogue’s Holy Ark in the 1970s, it was a bittersweet discovery for archaeologists. Though the texts provided further evidence for an ancient ...